Abstract [en]

The aim of this paper is to discuss the theoretical foundations which lie as a base for my PhD study about the ethical learning community in the school. The core of the school's activities is the process of learning and the school is also a meeting place for both teachers and students with different life stories. Because of the many opportunities of meetings, relations between individuals become very important. The meetings often contain interaction and therefore it is also of importance what values that are guiding our actions. On basis of that the community of the school plays a major part in the school's mission - education. Within this paper the phenomenology of the life-world will serve as a point of departure for the discussion, as well as the concept of ethical learning. The discussion deals with two concepts - ethics and learning - and in an attempt to visualise some conceivable answers to the question of what an ethical community can be, different ways of looking at this concept will be highlighted and discussed. The line of reasoning starts out from philosophical perspectives, and to provide exemplification a few dives will be made into the empirical context, which in this study is teachers written reflections of ethical learning situation at a Swedish compulsory school.